Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:05:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@computerstopusa.com> To: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> Cc: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root EDITOR as 'ee' in 2.2?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970218120342.1228B-100000@luke.cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <199702181828.MAA12526@freeside.fc.net>
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> > Yeah, so leave it with the _STANDARD_ 'vi' and change the sysinstall post > > configuration to 'setup root environment' rather than just set root's > > password, and allow the editor to be selected there. > > > > This change makes 1% of the people happy and just irritated 80%+ of the > > other admins. > > I'd like to second this notion. I'm not going to defend vi, because it's > certainly not the world's best editor, but there's a lot to be said for > the default editor being the same on every system one might log into. "ee" > will never qualify. Is this _really_ that big a deal, to even be discussing? I mean, so what if the default editor is ee, it takes 5 seconds to change it to whatever editor you want. Most beginners will be lost in vi, which is why I NEVER use vi anymore.
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